Speaker: Gavin Yamey, MD, MPH, MA, MRCP
Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Bio-statistics
University of California, San Francisco
Join us for the next Conversation in Global Health, featuring Dr. Gavin Yamey from UCSF. The event will be held on March 4 in LKSC Room 120 from 4:00-5:00 pm. A frequent policy advisor to international ministers of health, Dr. Yamey was one of the founding editors of PLOS Medicine and PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and currently leads the Evidence-to-Policy Initiative (E2Pi) at UCSF.
Gavin Yamey, MD, MPH, MA, MRCP, is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatics at the UCSF School of Medicine and is Lead ofE2Pi in the UCSF Global Health Group, which works to narrow the gap between evidence and action in global health policy.
He has undergraduate and masters degrees in physiological sciences (medicine) from Oxford University. Dr. Yamey did his medical training at Oxford University and University College London, qualifying as a physician in 1994. He became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 1997. He worked for five years in a variety of London teaching hospitals, followed by a fellowship in medical journalism and editing at the BMJ. His public health training was at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
Dr. Yamey serves on two international health commissions, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health and the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. He led the writing of Global Health 2035, the report of the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, which was published on December 3, 2013.
Renowned journalist, physician and bestselling author, Nancy Snyderman, MD, FACS, will share insights from her storied career covering global health and medicine in conversation with Paul Costello, chief communications officer for Stanford Medicine.
For almost three decades, Dr. Snyderman has combined her experience as a head and neck cancer surgeon, network television correspondent and advisor to Fortune 500 corporations, and is one of the most trusted voices in medical communication.
As former chief medical correspondent for NBC News and a medical journalist for ABC News, she has traveled the world extensively and has reported from some of the world’s most troubled areas. Her reporting has garnered her some of the industry’s most distinguished honors including Emmy, DuPont, Edward R. Murrow and Gracie awards. She is also a New York Times bestselling author, having written five books.
Dr. Snyderman completed medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical School and went on to become one of the first women in the country to specialize in Head and Neck Surgery. She recently joined Stanford as a Consulting Professor for Global Health in the School of Medicine and co-founded the Stanford-NBC News Global Media Fellowship (now the Stanford-ABC News Global Health & Media Fellowship). She is also a Consulting Professor of Medical Communication in the School of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center
Renowned journalist, physician and bestselling author, Nancy Snyderman, MD, FACS, will share insights from her storied career covering global health and medicine in conversation with Paul Costello, chief communications officer for Stanford Medicine.
For almost three decades, Dr. Snyderman has combined her experience as a head and neck cancer surgeon, network television correspondent and advisor to Fortune 500 corporations, and is one of the most trusted voices in medical communication.
As former chief medical correspondent for NBC News and a medical journalist for ABC News, she has traveled the world extensively and has reported from some of the world’s most troubled areas. Her reporting has garnered her some of the industry’s most distinguished honors including Emmy, DuPont, Edward R. Murrow and Gracie awards. She is also a New York Times bestselling author, having written five books.
Dr. Snyderman completed medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical School and went on to become one of the first women in the country to specialize in Head and Neck Surgery. She recently joined Stanford as a Consulting Professor for Global Health in the School of Medicine and co-founded the Stanford-NBC News Global Media Fellowship (now the Stanford-ABC News Global Health & Media Fellowship). She is also a Consulting Professor of Medical Communication in the School of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center
Changemakers and bestselling authors Kennedy Odede & Jessica Posner Odede will join Stanford Medicine’s Paul Costello for a conversation about their work providing health care, education and hope to African slum communities.
The conversation will be held from 4:00 – 5:00 pm, with a reception to follow.
Kennedy Odede grew up in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, the largest slum in Africa. Homeless from age 10, Kennedy had no formal education until, through extraordinary acts of persistence and sheer will power – and the advocacy of his now-wife Jessica Posner Odede – Kennedy was admitted to Wesleyan University, graduated in four years, gave the graduation speech, and is now on Wesleyan’s Board of Trustees. Together, Kennedy and Jessica founded and lead Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO), a grass-roots organization that provides a growing range of services and opportunities to slum dwellers in Kibera and throughout Africa. They operate a K-8 school for girls, a community water system, public toilets, a savings co-op program, women’s empowerment programs and a growing series of health clinics.
In addition to leading SHOFCO, Kennedy and Jessica are New York Times best selling authors of the story of their lives, Find Me Unafraid; Love, Loss and Hope in an African Slums. Kennedy has been honored as a Forbes 2014 “30 under 30” Social Entrepreneur, an Aspen Institute New Voice Fellow, and a Clinton Global Initiative Fellow, among many other honors. Jessica was selected as “America’s Top World Changer 25 and Under” by VH1, has been featured in numerous columns by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, and is the youngest alumnae in the history of Wesleyan University to be recognized with its Distinguished Alumni Award. Both Kennedy and Jessica have received the prestigious Echoing Green Fellow designation.
The conversation is part of the Conversations in Global Health quarterly seminar series from Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health.
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Research Seminar: “Use of spatial analysis in public health: passive and active surveillance to define spatial heterogeneity of infectious diseases”
Join for a seminar with special guest Donal Bisanzio, DVM, PhD, a senior postdoctoral modeller with the Malaria Atlas Project at the University of Oxford. Donal is a veterinarian epidemiologist whose research focuses on the study of vector-borne and parasitic diseases in humans and animals with major public health impact. His studies are performed using field and satellite data, results of laboratory studies, and sophisticated statistical/mathematical analyses to construct static and dynamic models to identify risk factors for the introduction, persistence, and spread of vector-borne and parasitic infections.
This seminar is sponsored by the Center for Innovation in Global Health and the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources.
Join the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health for a conversation with Professor David L. Heymann, renowned leader in global health and security, to hear about his life and career in which he headed the global response to SARS and worked on the first and second outbreaks of Ebola.
Prof. Heymann is Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Head of the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House and Chairman of the Board, Public Health England. Previously he was the World Health Organization’s Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment, and Representative of the Director-General for polio eradication.
From 1998 to 2003 he was Executive Director of the WHO Communicable Diseases Cluster during which he headed the global response to SARS. Before joining WHO, Prof Heymann worked for 13 years as a medical epidemiologist in sub-Saharan Africa on assignment from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) where, as well as supporting ministries of health in research, he participated in the first and second outbreaks of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever.
Prior to joining CDC, Prof Heymann worked in India for two years in the WHO Smallpox Eradication Programme. He is an elected fellow of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (United States) and the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom), and has been awarded several public health awards.
In 2009 Prof Heymann was appointed an honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) for service to global public health.
Event is free & open to the public. RSVP is encouraged but not required. Please RSVP here.
PHIND Seminar Series – Ann Hsing, Ph.D.
Tuesday, August 13, 2019 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Stanford WELL for Life Study: A Global Study of Precision Well-being
Dr. Ann Hsing, Ph.D.
Professor (Research) of Medicine
Stanford Prevention Research Center/Cancer Institute
Professor, by courtesy, of Health Research Policy (Epidemiology)
Stanford University
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
James H. Clark Center, Auditorium
11:00am – 12:00pm Seminar & Discussion
12:00pm – 12:15pm Reception & Light Refreshments
ABSTRACT
As the leader in well-being research, Stanford Prevention Research Center (SPRC) defines well-being as the holistic synthesis of a person’s biological, psychological, and spiritual experiences, resulting from interplay between individuals and their social, economic, and physical environments, that promote living a fulfilling life.Our vision is to improve and sustain health and well-being globally and our mission is to accelerate the science to enhance well-being. To accomplish this, we established the Stanford WELL for Life Study, an international study that uses novel methods to define, assess, and promote the multiple dimensions of well-being in the U.S. and globally. The Stanford WELL for Life Study uses a data-driven approach to define and measure well-being, identify factors related to well-being, and evaluate the impact of interventions on well-being. Currently, there are five study sites—the San Francisco Bay Area, China (Hangzhou), Taiwan (Taipei), Singapore, and Thailand (Bangkok)–with more than 24,000 individuals enrolled to date. We have collected data on 400-1,000 variables per individual and obtained biospecimens from 80% of participants for future molecular investigations. To assess well-being, SPRC developed a de novo multi-dimension survey (the Stanford WELL for Life Scale) that measures ten domains of well-being and a total well-being score. These ten domains, which emerged from our unique and extensive qualitative data, include: social connectedness, lifestyle and daily practices, stress and resilience, experience of emotions, physical health, purpose and meaning, sense of self, financial security and satisfaction, spirituality and religiosity, exploration and creativity. At the PHIND seminar, I will share with you the genesis and evolution of the Stanford WELL for Life Study and our exciting preliminary data.
ABOUT ANN HSING
Dr. Ann Hsing is a professor of medicine at Stanford University and co-leader of the population Sciences Program at Stanford Cancer Institute. She is also a professor at Stanford Prevention Research Center and in the Department of Health Research and Policy (Epidemiology, by courtesy). In addition, Dr. Hsing is a faculty fellow for the Center for Innovation in Global Health as well as the Center for Population Health Sciences (PHS) at Stanford Medicine, where she chairs the Pacific Rim Alliance for Population Health, a new multidisciplinary initiative aimed at improving health in the Pacific Rim. Prior to joining Stanford Medicine, Dr. Hsing served as Chief Scientific Officer at the Cancer Prevention Institute of California, a role she assumed after retiring from her post as a tenured intramural investigator at the National Cancer Institute where she served for 23 years. Dr. Hsing received her PhD in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University and her master’s degree in biostatistics from the University of California at Los Angeles. At Stanford, she serves as the Principal Investigator of WELL Asia, including longitudinal cohorts in China, Taiwan, and Singapore to investigate socio-behavioral, biochemical, and molecular determinants of well-being. Dr. Hsing has published over 295 peer-reviewed papers and mentored over 65 post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty. In addition to science, Dr. Hsing’s passion is training the next generation of scientists and helping young people succeed in realizing their dreams.
Hosted by: Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, M.D., Ph.D.
Sponsored by the PHIND Center